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...Department of Justice declares that the dissolution is "only a trick to fool the workers and permit the Communists to operate with less danger of imprisonment." "The Communists may have given up their illegal party," said R. J. Branegan, "under cover" man in the Department of Justice, "but they have not given up their organization. That is to say, the nucleus of revolutionists who controlled the illegal party remain in control of the Workers' Party, and retain their affiliation with Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Dissolved? | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...Fool Your Wife. A banal triangle-story of "fashionable society" produced in the usual deluxe, ooze-leather edition way. The chief characters rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing revel occurs at Miami in which all the guests have taken the wise precaution of substituting swimming gear for the more usual undies. The subtitles suit the picture-they are, most of them, of the "When came the dawnlight" school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

Channing Pollock has already received $300,000 royalties from the various companies playing his popular hit, The Fool, which was advertised as " the Lenten play." By the time all the road companies have completed their barnstorming he expects to have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...much-vaunted civilization has played in Christianizing the Far East. "We did not really recognize Japan as an equal," he said, "until she had slain her thousands in the Russo-Japanese War." Bringing matters a little nearer home, he mentioned the fact that Channing Pollock, writer of "The Fool" had declared that it took him three years to get the play accepted because the producers did not believe that the "public cared for that sort of thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IS IMMINENT SAYS FOSDICK | 4/11/1923 | See Source »

Something ought to be done with these incompetent operators. It's criminal! Here's this fool weatherman yesterday went and jammed the damn thing into reverse! SOLAN PLENES

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MAN ARRESTED FOR FRAUD--WILLING TO LET OWN LIE DETECTOR DECIDE HIS CASE | 3/8/1923 | See Source »

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